Rick Barron · Book 2
Beverly Hills Dead
- Published
- 1 January 2007
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN-13
- 9780399154690
- Type
- novel
About this book
Beverly Hills Dead continued Rick Barron's rise three years after The Prince of Beverly Hills, in 2007, at 304 pages, set against postwar studio politics, blackmail and murder in golden-age Hollywood. It closes out Stuart Woods's shortest series at two books, with Barron an ancestor of the Barrington family that recurs across Stone Barrington and Woods's wider fictional universe.
Its place in Rick Barron
Beverly Hills Dead is book 2 in the Rick Barron series. It follows The Prince of Beverly Hills. See the full Rick Barron reading order.
Rick Barron is a Los Angeles police detective turned studio security chief and eventually studio head at a Hollywood dream factory in 1940s-50s Los Angeles, the lead of Stuart Woods's shortest series and one of his few sustained period pieces. The Prince of Beverly Hills (2004) opens with Barron building his career amid the glamour and corruption of golden-age Hollywood; Beverly Hills Dead (2007) continues his rise against a backdrop of postwar studio politics, blackmail and murder. The two-book series shares its…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780399154690